Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, HONOLULU. In the country it may be said that a man who works two days in theweek can support his family comfortably, especially if he is near thesea-coast, whence he can obtain a supply of fish at any time he choosesto go for them. Fishing, taro-planting, and making poi are his chiefoccupations, and to these he generally adds mat-weaving, which isneither difficult nor laborious. His wants are few and easily supplied,and it is no wonder that the islander displays an unwillingness to wear 22 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. himself out in constant toil. The conditions of life do not require himto do so, and he lacks the ambition to accumulate a fortune solely for the sake of accumulating it. After dinner the guitle proposed that the strangers should witness akula-hula, or native dance. It was quite unlike the dancing of Euro-pean countries, consisting principally of more or less active movementsof the limbs while the body of the dancer swayed from side to side.
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HAWAIIAN DANCING-GIRLS. The dancers were girls dressed in short frocks like those worn byAmerican school-girls; they had wreaths in their hair and around theirankles, and their dresses were loosely gathered in at the waist, wherethey were held by cords. The music was supplied by two men whostruck their hands upon large calabashes and sang or chanted a lowmonotonous air. A very little of the dance satisfied the curiosity ofthe visitors, and they returned to the hotel at an early hour. The Hawaiians have another dance, which can be seen at their fes-tivals ; it is performed by men and women, usually elderly people, andis accompanied by singing, in which all may join. Then there are THE HULA-HULA AND OTHER DANCES. 23 dances for the younger people, but they are not generally practised,owing to the opposition of the missionaries, and possibly to the unwill-ingness of the people to indulge in active exercise unless they are paidfor it. All the dances have descended from the days before the

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